TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Demented Liar Joe Biden: Beau Biden Died In Iraq. (Jake Tapper Isn’t Running a Snarky Chyron Here, But If He Did, It Would Say: “No He Didn’t.”)

It’s so Different When Democrats Do It (TM)!

But here’s the interesting part. Qiu is the paper’s designated “fact-checker.” So, if Biden is habitually spinning yarns that unravel, she must be busy with Biden checks, right? No. She hasn’t “fact-checked” Biden since Aug.20, 2021, on the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco under an extremely mild headline: “Clarifying Biden’s Take of Evacuation.”

A peek at her archive of articles since then includes at least 14 “fact-checks” of Republicans and/or conservatives. This 14-to-1 imbalance in target selection would remind you of PolitiFact — which makes sense because that’s where Qiu worked before joining the Times.

Qiu avoids noting that Biden has repeatedly lied about being “shot at” in hostile territory.

Jake Tapper’s snarky chyron says: “No, he wasn’t.”

President Biden on Thursday told State Department employees he was “shot at” overseas — reviving a claim that previously stirred controversy.“You have great personal courage. I’ve been with some of you when we’ve been shot at,” Biden told a group of diplomatic aides in Washington.

Biden did not offer a detailed description of being shot at. But he was forced to walk back a similar claim in 2007 as veterans warned him not to exaggerate.

Biden said during a CNN-hosted Democratic presidential debate in 2007 that he was “shot at” inside Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone.

He later revised the claim, saying that in fact, “I was near where a shot landed.”

To be fair, Obama-era staffers routinely exaggerate their wartime peril:

TO BE FAIR, THIS IS PRETTY ON-POINT FOR THE VIEW: The View Defends Dem Fetterman’s Inability to Comprehend Words.

Two days after NBC News reporter Dasha Burns made headlines with her first-hand account detailing just how extensive Democratic Pennsylvania Senate nominee John Fetterman’s deterioration post-stroke was, the cackling coven of ABC’s The View had their knives out for her. They suggested Burns broke journalistic ethics, it was no big deal that Fetterman couldn’t comprehend speech and mocked Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R) for supposedly having an impairment too.

After playing a portion of Burns’ report on MSNBC, co-host Whoopi Goldberg appeared to scoff at the public’s need to know a candidate’s medical history and suggested they needed to wait to see Fetterman’s records until after the election and the swearing-in:

To paraphrase Nancy Pelosi, you have to elect the candidate to find out what — if anything — is inside him.

IF YOU SAW THIS COMING, YOU WERE AN ALARMIST CONSPIRACY THEORIST: Assisted Suicide is “the new social safety net.”

THE USUAL DISHONEST LEAK FROM SYMPATHETIC DEMOCRATIC INSIDERS? If not a FOIA, how DID Politico get those sexual assault and service records on Jennifer-Ruth Green?

OH SURE, BUT TRY MISSILE COMMAND OR DONKEY KONG, WHY DON’T YOU? Watch: A Dish of Brain Cells Figured Out How to Play Pong in 5 Minutes.

TODDLE OFF TO BERMUDA, SHORTY: Michael Bloomberg Has a Militia Fetish and He Wants You to Have One, Too.

Flashback: Militia groups outperformed police in Charlottesville.

REMINDER: Red State’s Kira Davis is running for Capistrano Unified School District as part of a slate of conservative candidates trying to flip that board.

LIVE AT 4PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, VodkaPundit, Special Guest.

NOW OUT FROM KURT SCHLICHTER: Inferno (Kelly Turnbull Book 7).

FAILED, TOO: Did Joe Biden Try to Blackmail the Saudis To Interfere With the Midterms?

Didn’t the Democrats impeach Trump over something like this?

READER FAVORITE: Cordless Vacuum Cleaner. #CommissionEarned

TRANS MADNESS: Michigan Is Hiding A Children’s Constitutional Right To Genital Amputation In Its Abortion Amendment.

ROGER KIMBALL: Alejandro Mayorkas has no shame.

Mayorkas is the perfect bureaucrat for this new agency. He is totally on board with whatever narrative his masters are emitting this week, and he lies with aplomb. Just now he is attracting a lot of ink because it has been revealed that he lied when presented with some melodramatic pictures of border agents on horseback trying to corral some illegal migrants. The media screamed that the men on horseback were “whipping” the poor defenseless undocumented future welfare recipients. “Oh, my God, they are being mean to these unarmed potential Democratic voters!” The El Paso Times got the bulletin and reproduced it precisely: “The agent swung his whip menacingly, charging his horse toward the men in the river who were trying to return to an encampment under the international bridge in Del Rio after buying food and water in Ciudad Acuña, Mexico.” Ginning up his parrot imitation, Mayorkas repeated after Jen Psaki (remember her?) and said he found the pictures “horrifying.”

“Horrifying!”

The trouble was, however, there were no whips. What might have looked like whips to people innocent of the art of horseback riding were actually reins, items to control horses, not wayward aliens attempting to cross our southern border illegally. (See “Horse lesson for novices.”)

And here’s the cherry on top: Mayorkas knew that the media narrative was, if I may so put it, horseshit. This just out from Fox News’s Bill Melugin: “Mayorkas was alerted by DHS’s top public affairs official that the ‘whipping’ narrative behind horseback BP photos wasn’t true, but at a WH press conference 2.5 hours later, he didn’t refute that narrative, instead calling the images ‘horrifying.’”

As Jim Treacher adds, “Oh well. They got the narrative they wanted and they won that news cycle. So what if it was 100% caca del toro? If those Border Patrol agents wanted any public sympathy, they should’ve moved to Martha’s Vineyard.”

Yet another example of Obama-style “stray voltage” in action to get past that’s week’s brutal news cycle.

BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD: Nasal COVID vaccine blows clinical trial, flinging researchers back to the lab.

KINSLEY GAFFE: Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN): “I will never stop standing up for big pharma and standing against my constituents.”

Related: The ‘Lifelong Republican’ Featured In Latest Angie Craig Ad Actually Votes As a Democrat. Man also can’t vote for Angie Craig—because he doesn’t live in her district.

VIDEO: Hundreds of Muslims Shut Down School Board Meeting Over LGBTQ+ Book Controversy.

UNSURPRISING: Study highlights importance of long-term management of hypertension.

TO BE FAIR, THE LATENIGHT HOSTS WERE COMPLICIT IN THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION: Trump Was Right: He ‘Destroyed’ Late Night TV. “Trump once bragged the mainstream media needed him to survive. Those same outlets are still around, but their numbers are a far cry from what they were during Trump’s term in office. And don’t even mention CNN+, which lasted all of one month before shuttering.”

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Watch: Joe Biden Incorrectly Claims His Son Beau ‘Lost His Life in Iraq.’

President Joe Biden appeared to incorrectly claim on Wednesday that his late son, Beau, “lost his life in Iraq.”

Giving a speech in Colorado to designate Camp Hale as a national monument, the president discussed the many sacrifices that soldiers make before citing his son Beau as an example.

“I say this as a father of a man and won the Bronze Star, the conspicuous service medal, and lost his life in Iraq,” Biden said.

Although Biden’s son did serve in Iraq, he died of brain cancer in 2015.

Related: State of the Euphemism: New York Times Establishes New Glossary to Avoid Calling President Biden a ‘Liar’.

And there is the foundation. Holding Joe accountable for what he says is not on the table. But what are journalists to do, after years of telling us a President lying is horrible? The answer: Reclassify Jose Biden’s lying as something else. To the rescue, in rides Sheer and Qiu with their handy guide. In this lengthy explainer of Biden’s fables, they deliver a wide array of new terms for lying in a helpful manner for journos. Buckle in – this is a long ride through a forest of ambiguity and double meaning.

The habit of embellishing narratives to weave a political identity…exaggerated biography…has embraced storytelling as a way of connecting with his audience…Biden’s folksiness can veer into folklore…the factual edges shaved off to make them more powerful…Mr. Biden’s fictions…weave together his political identity…he could stretch the truth up to a point…a serial exaggerator…continued to shave the truth…curious stories…

Update Newspeak Dictionaries accordingly, comrades.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Next-generation spacesuits on drawing board for NASA moon mission.

THE INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE IS GOING TO THE SUPREME COURT: Government Official with No Police Authority Pulled Over and Detained Drivers, Yet Granted Qualified Immunity.

FORMER SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” FALLS ON HARD TIMES: AOC Gets Shouted Down at Her Own Townhall, Proving Her Time as the Left’s Sweetheart Is Over.

There was a time when New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could do no wrong. In fact, so heavy was her influence that her fellow Democrat politicians were too afraid to oppose her openly. Some were even doing their best to mimic her with embarrassing results.

That time has passed, however:

My friend @Noggatone and I confronted Congresswoman @AOC on her support for Nuclear War and Ukrainian Nazis. I call her out for being a coward in the face of the party that will push us all into Nuclear war right now. Will she stand up like @TulsiGabbard and fight for peace? pic.twitter.com/aQiQvQSWIN

— Jose Vega — Vote Vega & Sare! (@JosBtrigga) October 13, 2022

MEET THE NEW GOP: Ohio’s Madison Gesiotto Gilbert. “Welcome to the latest Meet the New GOP — fresh candidates in some unlikely places who might just take that oath of office in January after the Red Wave election.”

IF YOU WARNED OF THIS IN 2020, YOU WERE CHARGED WITH SPREADING “DANGEROUS MISINFORMATION:” Some babies missed communication milestones during pandemic lockdowns.

A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION: 22% of this year’s grads are ready for college.